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An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the second week of February, 2017.

Privacy is Power: Why the fight for privacy mattersFebruary 08, 2017(comments)
An idiot posts to Medium a rambling narrative regarding the importance of his phone app. Hackernews maintains the only way to be sure your shit is right is to host all of your own communications tools. Google Analytics silently notes which citizens have been contaminated with toxins inimical to surveillance capitalism. The machine sleeps.

Optimizations in Syntax HighlightingFebruary 09, 2017(comments)
Some moron "optimizes" a feature of a text editor that is written in javascript and requires hundreds of megabytes of memory to open an empty file. Hackernews recommends you switch to this editor, or away from this editor, or anything, just switch. Whatever you're doing isn't what they're doing: fix it. In accordance with Federal law, one Hackernews implemented the feature in question in Rust.

pfSense: Open source network firewall distributionFebruary 11, 2017(comments)
Hackernews discovers there are things you can do with Unix that don't involve laptops or phones. Recovering from the initial shock, they realize that this is not linux, and begin to attack it for not being linux. Others attack it for being the wrong BSD.

Four Kinds of DystopiaFebruary 12, 2017(comments)
An internet makes up words. Hackernews is angry they didn't make up enough words and the ones they made up are wrong.

New Macbook Pro power efficiency and time remainingFebruary 14, 2017(comments)
A fanboy posts counterpropaganda attacking those who insult Apple. Hackernews is full of mechanical engineers, so they spend some time reconstructing Apple's design process from first principles. Conclusion: everything Apple does is correct. If it seems incorrect to you, that means you don't fully understand the problem.